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Like many comedians of their era The Three Stooges got their start in vaudeville, and like their contemporaries The Marx Brothers and The Ritz Brothers they came from immigrant Jewish families. Moe and Shemp Howard (Moses and Samuel Horwitz) and Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg) were part of a popular act called Ted Healy and his
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[This post is going to stay at the top for a week or two. Scroll down for newer posts.] As regular readers of this blog know, I've published a book that contains what I consider to be the best of the Sunday Night Journal, a weekly feature that ran for most of a decade here.
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My collection of the best of the Sunday Night Journal can be ordered from Amazon, in both paperback and Kindle formats, and from bookstores. Clicking on the cover image below will take you to Amazon. As bookstores have yet to realize that they should stock it, you can make the job of special-ordering it easier
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Warning: the refrain makes prominent use of "g–d—". I doubt they really mean it or understand what it means, as indeed most of us don't most of the time. See the first comment for a surprising fact about these two young women.
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Folks is not yo' enemy. The devil is yo' enemy. –A preacher I heard on the radio once
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For a long time I've been saying that it was only a matter of time before white people began to band together openly precisely as white people. Only someone who is ignorant either of recent American cultural and political life, or of human nature, or both, should be surprised at this. The writer who calls himself
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What would you do if you found, way out in the woods, a wrecked airplane containing a dead drug runner and four million dollars? Who would you be hurting if you just took the money home? The dead man had no moral right to the money, nor, probably, did anyone else involved in acquiring it.
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The old Gaelic poem (in English) about "Christ in the stranger's guise" set to music (and presented with appropriate imagery). (Hat tip to Neo-neocon.)
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He sought no mystical revelation. It was enough for him to be aware of the Nunc Dimittis. The reference is to Ernest Dowson's Catholicism. The remark is by the editor, Mark Longaker, of a 1962 edition of Dowson's poems .
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The Burmese Harp, a 1956 movie directed by Kon Ichikawa, is considered a classic antiwar film, but as some reviewers have noted it’s more than that because it dwells on what we do when great suffering happens, how we keep our humanity. I somehow missed it when it arrived in the U.S. in the 1960s,
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